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March 9, 2005

MTS announces subscriber growth numbers for February 2005

Moscow, Russian Federation — March 09, 2005 — Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” — NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announces that its consolidated subscriber base reached 37.15 million users on February 28, 2005.

During February 2005, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 1.21 million subscribers, of which 1.02 million were added in Russia.

Subscribers (mln) Feb. 28, 2005 Jan. 31, 2005 Growth
%
Growth
Subs
Feb. 29, 2004 Growth
%
Growth
Subs
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period 37.15 35.94 1.21 3.4% 18.38 18.77 102.1%
Russia 28.92 27.90 1.02 3.7% 14.73 14.19 96.3%
Moscow and the Moscow region 7.95 7.80 0.15 1.9% 5.20 2.75 52.9%
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region 1.90 1.88 0.02 1.1% 1.23 0.67 54.3%
Rest of Russia 19.07 18.22 0.85 4.7% 8.30 10.77 129.8%
Ukraine 7.89 7.72 0.17 2.3% 3.65 4.24 116.1%
Uzbekistan 0.34 0.32 0.02 4.1%
MTS Belarus1 1.33 1.27 0.06 4.4% 0.55 0.78 141.7%
1

MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.

 

For further information contact:

Mobile TeleSystems, Moscow
Andrey Braginski, Investor Relations
tel: +7 (095) 911-65-53
e-mail: ir@mts.ru

 

 

 

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